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The 'Crisis of Non-Replacement' Undermining Black Neighborhoods A new study shows a troubling reversal of fortunes in many middle-class Black neighborhoods. May 10, 2021, 6am PDT | Diana Ionescu | A study by Center for Community Progress senior fellow Alan Mallach found alarming rates of decline in the economic growth of Black middle-class neighborhoods in six U.S. cities. As Alan Greenblatt reports in Governing, "Mallach examined more than 300 neighborhoods – all with healthy median incomes in 2000 – and found that a large majority had slipped into poverty by 2018. Fortunes improved...

Why Black Neighborhoods Continue to Struggle Twenty years ago, hundreds of Black neighborhoods in major cities were in good shape financially. Even before the pandemic, however, a majority had slipped into poverty. April 29, 2021 •  (Shutterstock) Cleveland had more than 900,000 residents in 1950, but by the year 2000 its population had fallen below 500,000. The city still had some areas of relative strength, however, including a large supply of stable, primarily Black middle-class neighborhoods. That’s all changed. Over the past 20 years, most of tho...

GGWash’s new executive director, Chelsea Allinger. Image by Aimee Custis used with permission. GGWash chose not to endorse Chelsea Allinger when she ran for ANC 1D05 in 2018. We’ve taken a second look, and today we are thrilled to announce that she will become our new executive director. Who is Chelsea? Chelsea is a uniquely qualified, energetic, and experienced nonprofit leader who is well-equipped to navigate GGWash into its next chapter. Born in Rochester, New York, Chelsea has spent nearly fifteen years working nationally and locally on the front lines of urbanism. This includes a po...

Email Out-of-state corporate landlords are gobbling up Milwaukee homes to rent out, and it's changing the fabric of some neighborhoods Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 3:33 pm UTC Apr. 15, 2021 Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Meet the new breed of landlord invading Milwaukee:  A couple of former Silicon Valley executives who were crewmates on the Harvard rowing team; a fast-growing Ohio company that owns more than 13,000 rental homes in 14 states; a native of Peru who has run real estate companies in Houston and Palm Beach, Fla.; and a southern California w...

For all the talk, Detroit doesn’t have a gentrification problem. It has a poverty problem. That’s the message from Alan Mallach, an urban scholar and senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress in Washington, D.C. His new book, “The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America” explores the comeback of industrial cities like Cleveland and Detroit that he says few could have predicted. But the revivals mask ongoing problems in neighborhoods and pose difficult questions about equity, Mallach writes. Nearly 40 percent of Detroit is impoverished, and job training should be...